Jim Hagemann Snabe
Danish businessman (born 1965)
Jim Hagemann Snabe (born October 27, 1965) is a Danish businessman, and the chairman of Siemens. Together with Bill McDermott, Snabe was co-CEO of the German technology company SAP, before becoming member of the board of directors at SAP. Snabe has also been an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School since 2016 and is a member of the board of trustees at the World Economic Forum.2
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Born Oct 27, 1965.1
Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedAarhus School of Business3
Career
Occupation: manager, businessperson.5
Snabe started his career at SAP in 1990. After one year as a trainee, he became Consulting Manager for SAP Denmark. In 1994 Snabe left SAP to be Principal at IBM Denmark but returned to SAP after only two years.
SAP
After three years as managing director of the Swedish SAP subsidiary, Snabe was appointed managing director of the SAP Nordic region. Shortly thereafter, he held several management positions for the SAP EMEA region. From July 2008 on, Snabe was part of the executive board of SAP. After the departure of Léo Apotheker, Snabe and his colleague McDermott took on the position as Co-CEO for SAP AG on February 8, 2010.
On July 21, 2013, it was announced that Snabe would leave the position of Co-CEO in 2014 to be part of the SAP Supervisory Board. On the SAP Annual General Assembly on May 21, 2014, he was elected to the Supervisory Board. In October 2013 Snabe was elected to join the board of Siemens AG. In 2017 he was elected to be the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG. Mr. Snabe is also a member of the Board of Trustees at the World Economic Forum.
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Corporate boards
Deutsche Bank, Member of the Global Advisory Board (since 2022)
Northvolt, Chairman of the Board of Directors (2022 - 2024)
Maersk, Member of the Board of Directors (2016-2022), Chair of the Board of Directors (2017-2022)
Siemens, Chair of the Supervisory Board (since 2018)
Allianz, Member of the Supervisory Board (-2022)
Temasek, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2025)
C3 AI, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2021; on indefinite leave as of June, 2026)
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Personal life
At the age of two, Snabe and his parents lived in the Greenland capital of Nuuk for seven years, where his father worked as a helicopter pilot. From 1984 to 1990 he studied Operations research at the Aarhus School of Business. Currently, Snabe lives in Copenhagen with his wife and two children.
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